{"id":33690,"date":"2011-01-25T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=33690"},"modified":"2011-01-25T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:43:24","slug":"burns-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/burns-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the Scottish celebrate the birth of their national poet, Robert Burns. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with public readings of To a Haggis (a much tastier food that many imagine). Given Eric’s reverence for mice, I thought Burns’ famous mouse poem — from which we get the admonition about “the best laid plans of mice and men” — more appropriate. – amanda <\/em><\/p>\n

To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough<\/h3>\n

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
\nO, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
\nThou need na start awa sae hasty,
\nWi’ bickering brattle!
\nI wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
\nWi’ murd’ring pattle!<\/p>\n

I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,
\nHas broken nature’s social union,
\nAn’ justifies that ill opinion,
\nWhich makes thee startle
\nAt me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
\nAn’ fellow-mortal!<\/p>\n

Continued here, with Scottish definitions.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today the Scottish celebrate the birth of their national poet, Robert Burns. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with public readings of To a Haggis (a much tastier food that many imagine). Given Eric’s reverence for mice, I thought Burns’ famous mouse poem — from which we get the admonition about “the best laid plans of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}